Editorial: Three questions for President Trump about his looming Afghanistan peace deal
by The Editorial Board, Chicago Tribune
Sep 06, 2019
2 minutes
Numbers tell the toll inflicted by America's longest running war: Nearly 18 years of conflict in Afghanistan. More than 2,400 U.S. soldiers killed. Some 38,000 Afghan civilians dead. Washington's price tag since America's post-9/11 invasion in 2001: $760 billion and counting.
America's eventual decoupling from the Afghan conflict remains an enduring goal. But so is
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